Spiritual Gifts and other Blessings

First off it was truly joyful and unspeakably wonderful to welcome Jacob to his first Cell meeting! Thanks to Jenny, Dean and Megan for making the trip.

Here are the notes I made about spiritual gifts we recognized in each other:
Paula: the office of Prophet, plus other gifts including teaching and tongues;
Christina: office of Teacher, plus other gifts including leadership, speaking, singer, discernment, tongues;
Amanda: words of knowledge, interpretation of dreams, mercy, helps, discernment;
Noreen: intercessory prayer, serving, faith, hospitality, sewing & embroidery;
Carola: Welcome to the group, Carola! We don't know Carola well enough yet, but listened as she described her love of singing, of looking after animals, and possibly healing;
Freddy: administration, exhortation, prophecy, musician;
Chris: office of Pastor, plus other gifts including words of wisdom and knowledge, healing and encouragement; tongues (and interpretation of tongues?)
Roger: wisdom in leadership, in sense of getting people back on track and bringing them back to God's agenda, words of wisdom and knowledge, exhortation, tongues and interpretation of tongues);
Me: administration, writing, serving, words of wisdom and knowledge, encouragement, tongues;

At the meeting I mentioned an online test to help you recognize your own spiritual gifts, and here is the link if anyone else wanted to try it.
http://www.elca.org/evangelism/assessments/spiritgifts.html

I mentioned I might have the opportunity to do a spot of gentle evangelism today and Chris gave me the little 'Bridge to Life' booklet to help. I anticipated that the evangelistic opportunity might arise at the funeral I was attending of a former work colleague - I DID get to speak to someone and show them the booklet, but it wasn't at the funeral as anticipated. Please pray that the seeds sown today will be nurtured and will grow to fruition. Thanks everyone for your prayers - I felt surrounded and uplifted by that 'peace which passes all understanding' all day, and was able to be 'real' with former colleagues and speak about some of the healing work God has been doing in my life.